FRIS Research portal

Your window to research in Flanders

Flanders is a rich source of expertise. Every year there are about 3,000 current research projects and more than 30,000 scientific publications are published. The FRIS Research Portal offers you a unique view of publicly funded research in Flanders. The portal is a source of inspiration for reporting, analysis and statistics. In this way we can improve policy making and respond better to trends in society.

Thanks to a direct integration with the systems of the scientific institutions, FRIS can offer you the most recent data. A change in the database of a research center is immediately implemented on the portal. We are proud that all information about researchers, research groups, publicly funded projects and all publications from 2008 onwards is accessible to everyone.

The FRIS Research portal brings a lot of new features and changes, including a new search functionality that can be triggered from each page on our web-site, and an expertfinder where you can browse through a list of classifications to find an expert in your domain. For a comprehensive look at our new search functionality so far, you may want to check out the search requirements .

Flemish Research Discipline Standard

On 9 April 2019, the FRIS Research Portal migrated from the FRIS research disciplines to the Flemish Research Discipline Standard. The Flemish Research Discipline Standard, developed by the Expert Centre for Research & Development Monitoring (ECOOM) and commissioned by the Flemish government, is a hierarchical and semantically enriched classification list for research disciplines. The Flemish Research Discipline Standard replaces the numerous research discipline classification lists that have been used in Flanders in the past years and is implemented as a standard by numerous users (FRIS, FWO, VLIR, ...) and stakeholders (universities, university colleges, research institutions, ...) in Flanders. The Flemish Research Discipline Standard is unique because it offers the most granular research discipline classification worldwide where every discipline is provided with a definition that semantically describes what is included in that particular discipline. Read more...

How innovative is my PhD application with a specific funder?

Do you want to write a proposal about any specific research and would you like to request a grant at the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)?Do you want to know what they have already funded in the past and whether your proposal is innovative?See here how FRIS can help you.

How can I find an expert for my article or interview?

The expert finder allows you to find experts (person or organisation) based on a search through the tree structure of the scientific disciplines in Flanders.

Researcher in the spotlight

Valeria Pulignano associated with the Centre for Sociological Research of the KU Leuven recently acquired an ERC Advanced grant for her research project ResPecTMe ‘Resolving Precariousness: Advancing the Theory and Measurement of Precariousness across the paid/unpaid work continuum’.

Her research covers employment (industrial) relations and labour markets, their changing nature and implications for voice at work and labour market inequality in terms of differences in wages, working conditions, job quality and wellbeing. Valeria Pulignano focuses on European and national (macro) policy processes as well as (micro) power dynamics, that accompanied the changes within the production organization of large transnational corporations; and their effects on wages working conditions and job quality. Her research has yield to a profound theoretical approach of ‘sociological institutionalism’, where social actors (both capital and labour) – and their power resources – are central agents of changes within capitalist societies. In her work on employment she used a ‘dynamic’ and less ‘functionalist’ analytical perspective as the way in which to empirically and theoretically strengthening the sociological ‘political economy’ (‘power’ as socio-political) dimension of work within the study of employment (industrial) relations and labour markets, and their transformations, which she has approached from a European comparative perspective. Her work accounts for a more complex and novel interpretation which considers capital and labour as social forces (‘agents’) of change whose respective nature has undergone continuous fundamental change.

Looking for a Flemish partner to conduct research together?

Are you a (foreign) researcher, knowledge institution or company and looking for a Flemish partner to apply together for subsidies?Do you want to develop a strategic alliance as a company via the expertise centers of a Flemish university?Or are you looking for the necessary technology transfer support?Read more…

FRIS at Radio 1

Our FRIS project manager, Leen Van Campe, told on August 12 the FRIS story to the Radio 1 listeners in the radio program 'De ochtend'. Listen here to the interview (in Dutch).

Wanted: project leader and technical architect for the FRIS-programma

Would you like to join our team? This is possible.We currently have two vacancies.Interested?Click here

Open data license

Would you like to use our data? That is possible! The Flemish government has the right of use of the FRIS data. They are made available under the Flemish Free Open Data License . For each use, the following source statement must be included: Flemish government - Department of Economy, Science and Innovation. For further information, please contact fris@vlaanderen.be .

By referring in a specific way to the Flemish Open Data License, it would be possible that Google and other search engines know that is being referenced to a license, and that the material is made available under that license. To do this, html must refer to the Open Data License via the "rel = license" attribute in the link to the license.

Open data

Since long time the Flemish government has been a pioneer in Open Data and now, with FRIS, makes data from scientific research accessible to everyone.By making this data freely available, we resolutely opt for transparency, so that enterprises can realize economic added value.From now on, everyone can work freely with data about publicly funded research in Flanders.The 'open data' are available via the FRIS research portal and via open APIs. Extra description of the FRIS services can you find here. In the FRIS Integration Guide you can find all information about the exchange format for data delivery to FRIS. It is mostly compliant with standard CERIF (version 1.5) because of interoperability, but differs in certain aspects. More questions?Feel free to contact us by our contact form.